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The Strasbourg astronomical clockis located in the Cathédrale Notre-Dameof Strasbourg, Alsace, France. It is the third clock on that spot and dates from the time of the first French possession of the city (1681–1870). The first clock had been built in the 14th century and the second in the 16th century when Strasbourg was a Free imperial ...
Isaac (1544–1620) and Josias (1552–1575) Habrecht were two clockmaker brothers from Schaffhausen, Switzerland. They were hired to build the second astronomical clock in Strasbourg between 1571 and 1574, its design being created by Christian Herlin and later his pupil Conrad Dasypodius. Josias and Isaac were two sons of the clockmaker ...
2011 (republished) Media type. 4 Hardback Volumes. Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam ( lit: Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vietnam) is a state-sponsored Vietnamese-language encyclopedia that was first published in 1995. It has four volumes consisting of 40,000 entries, the final of which was published in 2005. [1] The encyclopedia was republished ...
Strasbourg (UK: / ˈstræzbɜːrɡ /, [ 5 ] US: / ˈstrɑːsbʊərɡ, ˈstrɑːz -, - bɜːrɡ /; [ 6 ]French: [stʁasbuʁ] ⓘ; German: Straßburg [ˈʃtʁaːsbʊʁk] ⓘ; [ 7 ][ 8 ]) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France, at the border with Germany in the historic region of Alsace.
Flourishing throughout the middle ages and Renaissance, it was conquered by Louis XIV in 1681. After having changed nationality four times between 1870 and 1945, Strasbourg today is a symbol of Franco-German reconciliation and European integration. The following is a detailed history of Strasbourg, France.
Strasbourg Cathedralor the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg(French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, or Cathédrale de Strasbourg, German: Liebfrauenmünster zu Straßburg), also known as Strasbourg Minster(German: Straßburger Münster), is a Catholiccathedralin Strasbourg, Alsace, France. Although considerable parts of it are still in ...
Strasbourg is 7 degrees, 45 minutes east of Greenwich, which means that noon in Strasbourg is 31 minutes past civil noon. Which is to say, the third clock, like its two predecessors, still strikes at noon, local time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.3.151.239 19:26, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
St Thomas' Church (French: Église Saint-Thomas, German: Thomaskirche) is a historic building in Strasbourg, eastern France. It is the main Lutheran church of the city since its cathedral became Catholic again after the annexation of the town by France in 1681. It is nicknamed the "Protestant Cathedral" (la cathédrale du Protestantisme ...